"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return." -- Leonardo da Vinci

Why, hello there. :) So, you've happened across my profile and want to know more about me, huh? Well, alright, I'll comply for some simple info. But you're never going to get my deepest, darkest secrets. x3 (Insert crazy laugh) *coughcough*

I am a sixteen year old girl desiring to become a better writer and artist. I write and draw to shoulder all the pent up feelings of any sixteen year old girl causing havoc and lack of focus inside my brain. And to improve so I can possibly publish a novel or two. ;)

Name: Alyssa
Gender: Female all the way!
Location: Corn Central. Where else? 83
Favorite RL Author(s): Rick Riordan, James Patterson, and Ally Carter, just to name a few
Favorite Band(s): Three Days Grace, Three Doors Down, BarlowGirl, Fireflight, Superchick, Evanescence, Skillet, Rascal Flatts, Daughtry, Nickelback, Linkin Park, Taylor Swift, Breaking Benjamin, Tobymac, Within Temptation, Trading Yesterday, Britt Nicole, Josh Groban (Not necessarily in that order. And the list goes on. xD)
Favorite Color: Blue, Green, Purple, and Orange
Favorite TV Shows: Young Justice, The Legend of Korra, Danny Phantom, Avatar: The Last Airbender, NCIS, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Victorious, iCarly
Favorite Book Series: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Heroes of Olympus, Maximum Ride, The Gallagher Girls, The Hunger Games, Alex Rider, Witch and Wizard, The Kane Chronicles, Chronicles of Narnia, 39 Clues
Favorite Movies: Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Under the Red Hood, Peter Pan, Peter Pan: Return to Neverland, most Disney movies, Avatar, Inception, National Treasure (1 and 2)...and a bunch of others I can't think of at the moment. xD
Favorite Foods: Spaghetti, Ravioli, or pretty much anything saucy and containing noodles. x3 Chocolate, caramel, popcorn (preferably kettle), pizza, CORN xDD
Interests: Drawing, writing, reading, listening to music, singing, playing percussion, photography, running, bicycling, playing basketball, tennis, and baseball
Websites:lyssie212.deviantart.com
http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/679747
http://lyssie212.tumblr.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/Lyssie212?feature=mhee
E-mail/MSN messenger: Wanna get to know you first. ;)
Personal Quote: "...That's nice."
Other random favs: I love going out to a relative's farm, sitting around a bonfire roasting marshmallows and telling stories, looking at the stars on a clear night out in the country away from city lights, Thanksgiving (Mmmm...stuffing! xD), the good 'ole Christmas spirit/holiday, learning about other people, taking pictures of sunsets/sunrises/other beautiful nature scenes, playing with puppies at the ARL, the crunch of leaves, the smell (and taste) of pumpkin pie, Bald Eagles, hawks, laughing, cuddling, a good book in front of the fireplace, riding horses through the forest, making other people laugh, swinging, cheesy (as long as they're actually good) romances (only about 3-4 x3), learning new words, and logic puzzles.

That's not even half of it! ;D

(Put this on your page if u like music)
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My all time favorite quotes

"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession."
Albert Camus

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies the curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Joseph Addison

"You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you." -Mary Tyler Moore

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art." -Leonardo da Vinci

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist." -Oscar Wilde

"True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist." -Albert Einstein

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." -Pablo Picasso

"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced." -Leo Tolstoy

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you, everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." E. E. Cummings

Avoid popularity if you would have peace. – Abraham Lincoln

Popularity—a fool's gold.

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."
Leo F. Buscaglia

People on the outside think there's something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn't like that. You sit in front of the typewriter and you work, and that's all there is to it.
- Harlan Ellison

It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.
- William Faulkner

Live a good life, and in the end, it's not the years in a life, it's the life in the years. -Abraham Lincoln

Yes, I hit like a girl. You could too if you hit a bit harder.

"Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
- Albert Einstein

“Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities." -- Nevil Shute, 'Slide Rule'.